New sighting of the rare Malayan Colugo in central Vietnam's Quang Nam Saola Nature Reserve. In early September 2015, a joint wildlife survey team with members from WWF-Vietnam (part of the CarBi ...
With large goggle-like eyes, webbed feet, and a full-body wingsuit made of skin, the flying lemur looks like an unconventional superhero soaring through the trees. Its elusive nature and peculiar ...
Ever hankered to see a Malayan Colugo, a Matschie’s tree-kangaroo or a Dumbo octopus in action? Now help is at hand as the BBC today opened up its vast archive of wildlife footage online. More than ...
A research group has used genomic data from the exotic Malayan flying lemur (colugo) to uncover the oldest lentivirus ever identified, whose first emergence may date to as early as 60 million years ...
They aren't monkeys and they don't really fly, but the story of flying lemurs just got twice as interesting. Genetic material has revealed that one species of the acrobatic primate is really three.
Malayan colugo (Galeopterus variegatus). This image relates to an article that appeared in the Nov. 2, 2007, issue of the journal Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. J.E. Janečka and ...
Gripping tightly to a tree trunk, at first sight a colugo might be mistaken for a lemur. However, when this animal leaps it launches into a graceful glide, spreading wide the enormous membrane that ...
More than 60 mammal species—like the famous flying squirrel—have adapted the ability to sail from tree to tree. Thrilling, yes. But what’s the evolutionary advantage? One theory suggests gliding saves ...
Everyone has always assumed that animals glide to save energy, but when researchers attached acclerometer/radio transmitter back packs to colugos in the Singapore rainforest, they discovered that ...